Marshall Emma-Jane, Brockman Robert N
School of Social Sciences and Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
J Cogn Psychother. 2016;30(1):60-72. doi: 10.1891/0889-8391.30.1.60. Epub 2016 Jan 1.
Despite theoretical overlap between self-compassion and psychological flexibility, empirical links between these constructs is limited. This study examined the relationships between psychological flexibility, self-compassion, and emotional well-being to add to the literature on understanding the importance of self-compassion as a possible contributor to mental health, adding support to continuing development of compassion-based therapies. Relationships among these constructs were explored using survey data from a sample of 144 university psychology students (110 females and 34 males, aged 17-60 years). Self-compassion was significantly correlated with psychological flexibility processes, including mindful acceptance, defusion, and emotional well-being. Regression analyses indicated that self-compassion predicts significant unique variance above and beyond psychological flexibility across various indices of emotional well-being. These findings support the association between psychological flexibility, self-compassion, and emotional well-being, with implications for 3rd-wave models of therapy, including acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and compassion-based approaches. Therapies incorporating compassion processes may potentially lead to improved treatment outcomes.
尽管自我同情与心理灵活性之间在理论上存在重叠，但这些构念之间的实证联系却很有限。本研究考察了心理灵活性、自我同情与情绪幸福感之间的关系，以补充有关理解自我同情作为心理健康可能促成因素的重要性的文献，为基于同情的疗法的持续发展提供支持。利用来自144名大学心理学专业学生（110名女性和34名男性，年龄在17至60岁之间）样本的调查数据，探讨了这些构念之间的关系。自我同情与心理灵活性过程显著相关，包括正念接纳、认知解离和情绪幸福感。回归分析表明，在各种情绪幸福感指标中，自我同情预测了超出心理灵活性的显著独特变异。这些发现支持了心理灵活性、自我同情与情绪幸福感之间的关联，对包括接纳与承诺疗法（ACT）和基于同情的方法在内的第三代治疗模型具有启示意义。纳入同情过程的疗法可能会潜在地改善治疗效果。
